Nathan Hale

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''I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.''

Nathan Hale (1755-1776), U.S. revolutionary soldier. Speech, September 22, 1776, before being executed as a spy by the British.
In his play Cato, act 4, sc. 4. Joseph Addison had written similar words: "What pity is it/That we can die but once to serve our country!"